Four Stations Launch NextGen TV In Albuquerque

Four stations serving the Albuquerque-Santa Fe, N.M., television market today began broadcasting with NextGen TV, also known as ATSC 3.0.

Switching on the new transmission standard were Hearst Television’s KOAT (ABC), Nexstar Media’s KRQE (CBS and Fox) and Mission Broadcasting’s KWBQ (CW) and KASY (MNT).

Today’s launch in Albuquerque-Santa Fe follows a decade of development and months of planning and preparation by the local stations. KASY has converted to ATSC 3.0 transmissions and will broadcast its own programming, as well as the programming of the other participating stations, in NextGen TV format.

All programming of all participating stations will continue to be available in the existing DTV format, which can be received on all modern television sets.

BitPath, which is developing new data broadcasting services, led the planning process and coordinated efforts across the four television stations.